California and Colorado are the only two states that allow wastewater to be used for drinking water. The CalMatters article cited 'climate change' as the cause of water shortages in California, but radical environmental regulations limiting water distribution is the major cause of 'man-made' drought in the state.

Vilket är värdet av, poängen och meningen med, att samtala? Filosofiska rummet bjuder på ett meta-samtal på årets sista dag. Dessutom prövar gästerna samtalsformen med var sin filosofisk tanke.

Germany and the EU have funded Covid vaccine-maker BioNTech's expansion into Africa to the tune of £500m. But what vaccines are the new facilities going to be making exactly when BioNTech only has one product?
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The Daily Sceptic is appealing for donations from readers. We’ve been so effectively demonetised and shadowbanned by the powers that be that we’re almost entirely reliant on donations. Please remember us this Christmas.
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La question de « l’aide » américaine à la France et généralement aux puissances européennes dans les années 1940-1950 est un sujet passionnant mais aussi d’une brûlante actualité au regard de la politique américaine vis-à-vis des pays européens depuis maintenant plusieurs années, et en particulier dans le cadre des opérations militaires en Ukraine. Cette question […]

Many readers of Antiwar.com have wondered why they have seen no new articles from me in more than 6 weeks.  The answer is that I was battling heart and other health issues that nearly took my life.  At one point, my principal cardiologist told my wife that I was unlikely to make it out of … Continue reading "My Own Brush with Death Has Intensified My Opposition to U.S. Imperialism"

John Mearsheimer is the Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and one of the leading foreign policy scholars in America. Here’s what he has to say to you. Also, read his new article, “Death and Destruction in Gaza.” Dear Antiwar.com Reader, It is amazing how much war there … Continue reading "Why You Should Support Antiwar.com"

Sherman’s march to the sea, by F.O.C. Darley. Public Domain. “You people of the South don’t know what you are doing,” William Tecumseh Sherman told David F. Boyd in 1860. “This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You … Continue reading "This Christmas, Remember That War Is Hell"

Gabriel Custodiet urges us not to make compromises for the sake of convenience. Sponsors If you’re a listener of the Tom Woods Show, chances are you have some gold. But if you’re just sitting on it, you’re leaving money on the table. At Monetary Metals… Read MoreDownload Audio

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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While stationed in Italy, Soviet journalist and undercover KGB officer Leonid Sergeevich Kolosov (1926-2008) was told by none other than mafia boss Nicola Gentile about the realities of power in postwar Italy. Gentile’s revelations and information provided by other agents pointed to a “secret government” running Italy through an elite masonic lodge: P-2, itself a … Continue reading Italian Job: The KGB, Gladio & P-2 Lodge →

Leonid Sergeevich Kolosov (1926-2008) was a Soviet international correspondent for Izvestia and also attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the KGB First Chief Directorate (FCD). Kolosov was stationed in Italy, his country of specialization, in the 1960s and 1970s under journalistic cover. In this interview he recounts his work with Sicilian mafia boss Nicola … Continue reading Italian Job: The KGB, Mafia & Red Brigades →

Tristana joins me to revisit the classic dystopian horror from Alex Garland, Ex Machina since we are coming up on almost 10 years since its release, as well as other films like Spike Jonze’s Her. Live at 7PM CST Sign up for Richard Grove’s newest course on becoming self sufficient as a sovereign entrepreneur here. […]

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocideby Ian Sinclair21 December 2023 “…the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of […]

Carl Jung would not be surprised by how the West is destroying itself via the unconscious transformation of what is good into the opposite – a process he termed enantiodromia, says Dr Hugh Willbourn.
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Another open forum for a broader range of topics! Culture war, history, geopolitics, the NW0, Protestantism, atheism, Roman Catholicism and the papacy, as well as philosophical topics – it’s all open forum today (within in TOS guidelines). Sign up for Richard Grove’s newest course on becoming self sufficient as a sovereign entrepreneur here. Remember to […]

Western Governments are stuck in a bind of their own making with the unworkable Refugee Convention preventing effective control of their borders – a prime example of a luxury belief, says Dr. Prakash Shah.
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This 12,000-word tome is straight from the official Chinese website, and it gives marching orders to every corner of the country to use AI to implement Technocracy in China and beyond: Smart Cities, Smart Agriculture, Smart Society, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Healthcare, Smart Economy, Smart Robots, Smart Transportation, Smart IoT, Smart Finance, Smart Logistics, Smart Homes, Smart Education, Smart Government, Smart Courts, and more.

Jay Dyer joins us to talk about predictive programming and what a civil war in America might look like. Venture into the realm of speculative fiction and reality as we scrutinize the eerie prescience of “Leave the World Behind”, the upcoming “Civil War” movie, and other dystopian narratives with Jay. These stories often eerily echo […]

Everyone is talking about it, but what is the bigger picture? First, we will establish that it is a change in doctrine and morals, then we will see that it is much bigger than just a “blessing,” and then we will see the overall endgame goals. Sign up for Richard Grove’s newest course on becoming […]

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war ==== Siegfried SassoonMemoirs of an Infantry Officer The war had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman. What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims. ‘Fivers’ melted rapidly at the Olympic, […]

A former partner of Farmington State Bank, the tiny rural bank embroiled in the FTX scandal, is now building the rails for CBDCs in the Middle East and beyond. Their recent activities may finally reveal the true motives behind Sam Bankman-Fried's and his allies' use of Farmington, with major implications for the coming Digital Dollar.
Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar.

Inside China, there is a candid and robust discussion about Technocracy and its implementation. In the West, hardly anyone sees China in this light. Sun Tsu wrote in The Art of War, "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." This is why China will continue to steamroll over the West.

"Proponents of ESG would like to see more legal requirements for companies to reach net zero, to hire more diverse boards and employees, and to cater to a variety of stakeholder interest groups rather than the interest of shareholders." ~Paul Mueller

Here’s a link to the Amazon page selling the book https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP9VCNDH…
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Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
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Tom Woods and I had a hoot on his podcast talking about my new book, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. We debunked police dogs, tarred the TSA,  and revealed how Pornhub is being victimized by the ADA. Beer also takes a victory lap late in the interview.   In his thumbnail for the interview, […]
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"Our freedom depends on voluntary human cooperation. The Stoics offer practical wisdom for promoting freedom by helping you remove your internal barriers to cooperating with others." ~Barry Brownstein

On Monday a New York Judge Loretta Preska ruled that the infamous “Epstein Client List” must be released “in full” in January 2024. The 51-page ruling has caused a stir, but what is it really going to tell us? Is it going to reveal anything of his ties to US and Israeli intelligence? Highly improbable. …

A teacher has been found guilty of "unacceptable professional conduct" and branded a "safeguarding risk" for expressing and debating Christian beliefs on gender and marriage in a Church of England school.

The Lancet's analysis implies that without the Covid vaccines global deaths in 2021 would have been 40% higher than normal – a higher mortality rate than World War Two or the great famine of China. This is absurd.
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The European Union has struck a deal to tighten immigration controls, making it easier to deport failed asylum seekers and hold families in detention centres on the bloc's external borders.
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AMTE Power, a high-performance battery developer, has called in administrators in a fresh blow to Britain’s Net Zero industry as orders dried up.
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Public service announcement: online scambots are now stealing my name and likeness to entice people to email them (at a gmail account, no less!) for financial advice. NEWSFLASH: I don't hang around comments sections asking people to email me for financial advice. It's a scam. Don't fall for it. By the way, were you aware that I'm not on Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Telegram or any other major social media app? Well, you do now! (The more you know...)

What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, brutal siege for many years, facing one of the greatest military powers in the world. And yet, it refuses to be defeated. Not even the legendary tenacity of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ … Continue reading "‘Let It Be a Tale’: On Refaat Alareer and the Martyrdom of the Gaza Intellectual"

The significance of the December 12 UN General Assembly vote goes well beyond the demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. It is a striking repudiation of US hegemony. The significance is not just in the content of the vote but in the context of the vote. US planners have long believed that the … Continue reading "The General Assembly Just Rebuked US Hegemony"

Författaren och filosofie doktorn Isabelle Ståhl berättar om forskningen kring diverse narkotiska preparat i tjugotalets Tyskland. I förbifarten nämns Gösta Ekman d.ä., Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, Herman Heller, Adolf Hitler, Hjalmar Bergman, Lou Reed, Reine Brynolfsson och eurodiscogruppen Scooter. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.

Jim Bovard is rightly a hero among libertarians for his outstanding journalistic work. In this episode we discuss everything from police dogs to the TSA to Section 8 housing and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Sponsors My listeners and I are going to make 2024… Read MoreDownload Audio

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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"Sweden had no lockdown and came out better": Anders Tegnell submits his devastating written evidence to the U.K. Covid Inquiry. But will it listen?
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Andrew Bridgen quit as Laurence Fox's Reclaim party's only MP today over "a difference in direction" as he said he had to put his constituents first with an election approaching "in the first half of next year".
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Silicon Valley has long been a hotbed of Transhumans who want to find an actual cure for death through hacking DNA. With the science of DNA/cell reprogramming behind them, they think it is now just an engineering problem. Contrast Altman's worldview with the Bible, which says that death is an immutable curse placed on Adam and Eve for their rebellion against God (Genesis 2:17, 3:3)

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Bertrand Russell: Selections on war and peace ==== Bertrand RussellWhy Men FightA method of abolishing the international duel War as an Institution In every civilized country two forces coöperate to produce war. In ordinary times some men – usually a […]